Course Description Course Description
| Social Work 430a/b Overview of Addictions |
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An examination of the addiction field with a focus on addiction as oppression. The use, misuse, and abuse of psychoactive substances will be examined from a biopsychosocial perspective. The course will review addiction-specific and general community resources as well as the range of addiction-specific models of intervention and counselling. |
| Antirequisites: Social Work 465a completed in 1998-99 and Social Work 465b in 1999-2000. |
| Prerequisite: Third-year Social Work courses. |
| 3 lecture hours, half course. |
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